#PolaX is about dark obsession, a love story that's quite similar to his earlier films, just without whimsical romanticism. It's not the graphic sex scene that differentiate it as a more mature work. Although it features beautiful young actors - #GuillaumeDepardieu at his most dashing & a dangerous beauty, #KaterinaGolubeva, among them, being young is never verbalized or beholden to. For once, it’s not about first love. #LeosCarax #CatherineDeneuve #HermanMelville #adaptation #pierretheobscure

A young woman is dropped off in the snowy remote village where Tofala prople live. She shares a smoke w/ an old reindeer herder. But the welcome is short lived. At the gathering of the villagers at night, she watches their drunkenness in silence from one corner of the room. After a knife fight w/a couple of drunken local men, she flees the village on foot. No one helps her. It's a cold, unforgiving world for outsiders. This wordless film is stunning. #lithuaniancinema #fewofus #KaterinaGolubeva